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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2018
Augustine Temperature Management Llc, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Scott D. Augustine, Deephaven, MN (US);
Randall C. Arnold, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Ryan S. Augustine, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Rudolf A. Deibel, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Scott A. Entenman, St. Paul, MN (US);
Gordon D. Lawrence, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Keith J. Leland, Medina, MN (US);
Thomas F. Neils, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Augustine Temperature Management LLC, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
An electric blanket including a flexible sheet-like heating element, a shell comprising two flexible sheets covering the heating element, one or more welds coupling the sheet of the shell about the edges to hermetically seal the heating element there between; and a flexible insulating layer extending over the heating element and covered by the shell providing at least one of thermal insulation and electrical insulation, wherein the heating element is held in position between the two sheets of the shell without using connectors that pierce the two sheets.